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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Gaining peace
and prosperity is not impossible. It can be achieved through gaining insights
on how we can use our freedoms to realize world peace and prosperity.
Everything starts with a genuine pursuit of happiness and equality. The rest
will just fall into place. The important thing in getting peace and prosperity
is to know what are the things that we need to have in order to make this world
a better place.

Respect

Respect is
important and the basic of the tenets of achieving peace and prosperity. We
cannot have peace without respect. It is the foundation of what we hope for and
what this world would become to be. Without respect, our hopes of having a
great and unified society will never get off the ground. Even if we are able to
make the wheels running; the absence of respect will become a monkey wrench
that will put things to a halt. Respect is everything and without it everything
will fall into shambles.Needless to
say, that all of us must show respect to one another regardless of race,
religion, nationality and gender. One little act of disrespect is already
enough to spark the flame of chaos which could eventually lead to conflict and
war. Thus, we must show respect to everyone, at all times.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Efficiency may be defined as “The ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort”.It
is a management tool measuring the competence of any organization,
being the ratio of output to input, generally expressed as percentage.
The input consists of all that goes into producing a product or service,
i.e. labor, capital and/or materials, land, energy, capital goods
(assets-machinery, tools, facilities, equipment), etc. Following is the
equation depicting efficiency:

Efficiency = Actual Outputs (U) / Actual Inputs (I)

The main goal of efficiency is the optimal utilization of all the resources and to reduce wasted material, time, energy, and money.
It stipulates the formation of a workflow that reduces unnecessary
steps. Efficiency may relate to individuals or organization, but the
objective remains the same. Being efficient means Performing or
functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and
effort.

The origin of efficiency can be traced to Frederick Taylor’s
Scientific Management Movement. Implementation of time and motion
studies laid the foundations of improving productivity in manufacturing
operations showing the way to the introduction of concept of efficiency.

Higher efficiency levels were thought to be the hallmark of
successful organizations. Efficient organizations were automatically
considered profitable and thus successful. But, that all changed when
well- known and highly efficient organizations were found to be
deficient in producing higher rates of profits and even started
generating loses.

Effectiveness may be defined as:Having
an intended or expected effect. Producing a strong impression or response;Producing a decided, decisive or
desired effect. The degree to which objectives are achieved and the
extent to which targeted problems are solved.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

There always had been an ongoing debate about the comparative
importance of knowledge and experience. While according to one view
knowledge is all pervasive and in the absence of knowledge experience by
itself is nothing, but a process of trial and error. The other view on
the other hand avers that knowledge without experience is of little or
no use due to its fickleness. The debate became more widespread after
theories and concepts of management especially human resource or
people’s role became more prominent. Before going down deeply into this
debate, let us first know what in simple or in common language knowledge and experience are.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Inspired by the theme "Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Future"
for the 2012 observances of the UN International Day of Peace, UPF
chapters in 30 nations organized programs ranging from academic forums
to interreligious ceremonies to poetry contests. They engaged youth in
promoting a culture of peace through service, sports, music, dance,
crafts, and public information campaigns. For details about events in
each nation,

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Intelligence and wisdom are two great human qualities. Any person possessing them is looked upon with respect and considered most valuable. Generally intelligence and wisdom are considered very similar, but there are many aspects of dissimilarity between the two. As intelligence and wisdom relate to human mind it is, therefore, important to first know about human intellectual faculties.

There are six intellectual faculties: Imagination Intuition Perception Memory Reason Will

While humans also have sixth sense, the above six represent different abilities that a person may have providing him other means for understanding different aspects of life. The six senses make a person see, hear, smell, touch, taste and get awareness not explicable in terms of perception. The six intellectual faculties help him to be creative and resourceful, using senses to enhance awareness and develop thoughts, remember the past in any form, understand on the basis of logic and decide or go for an action. It is, therefore, abundantly clear that the senses and the intellectual faculties are the most important resources of a human being.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

To know and to know more is a basic human instinct and is engraved in the human mind. The fact that even a child puts a lot of questions to his parents testifies to this fact. Learning being the oldest medium of getting to know, has played an important role in developing human mind. Before going to the inception of learning process, it is worthwhile to first go through the definition of learning.

Learning: the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught:

Knowledge acquired through experience, study, or being taught:

As discussed earlier man’s quest for knowing is enshrined in his mind, and with the passage of time this was converted into a need as he started coming across different situations that his mind was unable to decipher or was confronted with problems that required solutions. That gave rise to the first human learning and that was from nature and the environment. The earliest mode of learning was observation, experimentation and discovery. This learning took in to account the relationship/ interaction between different facts and events, and the resulting outcome. Man learned that sometime when one thing will happen it will result in the happening of another thing.

He observed that when sun rises it brings light and heat and when it sets darkness and cold prevail. He learned many things from animals through sheer observation. He came to know that flicker is created through friction among dry leaves as well as stones. The next step in this area was experimentation to verify different observations for meeting his needs. Thus he created flame for light to counter darkness and cold, invented crude weapons for defending himself and discovered that different plant contents can be used to cure certain types of sickness. In short it can be said that the more he learned the more he was benefited. In this way man took the first step towards formation of what we now call knowledge.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

"A
variation between what one says and what one does is the cause of many evils in
the society at large and in politics especially".

The
above accusation is one of the most widely believed statement going around. On
the face of it, there is no doubt it looks 100% correct as it indicates
divergence between words and conduct or deeds. But, to understand it in the
right context it is important to have a thorough analysis of the process
comprising the elements of saying and doing and for that first we have to see
what the words say and do mean.

Say:
Utter words so as to convey information, an opinion, a feeling or intention, or
an instruction.

Do:
Perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified)

Now
let us concentrate on the word Say.

Keeping
in view the meaning of the word "say" as an example "Saying"
may take place in the following situations:

1An
elderly person announces that he will celebrate the coming X-mas on Everest.

A
politician announces his decision to make a certain law, on coming to power.

A
person reiterates the statement or point of view of some other person that one
should not work after retirement.

A
person condemns the act of some other person allowing his daughter to marry of
his own choice and declares that if she was her daughter he would have killed
her.

Let
us assume that the following actually happened:

1.
The elderly person could not celebrate X-mas on Everest due to poor health.

2.
The politician who declared the enactment of a law did not do that because of
lack of majority.

3.
The person who reiterated the statement of another person and supported him in
his decision not to work after retirement got re-employed.

4.
The person who condemned the conduct of another allowing his daughter to marry
against father's choice, himself agreed to allow his daughter to do so, having
failed to persuade her even after threatening never to see her again if she
married of her own choice.

Let us see what would have happened
if the person saying something had gone for implementing the same.

In number one he would have either died in the
attempt or forcibly prevented from doing.

In number two the politician would
have been defeated if he had tried to pass the law.

In number three the person and his
family could have suffered due to weak financial condition.

In number 4 the father would have
killed the daughter and got arrested.

If we compare the two scenarios of
doing and not doing what had been declared
we see that not doing appears to be less harmful to the society than
implementing the words spoken.

This might look illogical because in
principle one should do what one says. So, why it is so, for knowing
that let us take a module comprising
saying and doing and make an analyses.

The most simple and commonly
understood module comprising saying and doing is:

Thinking—Saying--- Doing

But, it is not necessarily the
sequence that is followed. Following actions can take place:

1. 1. A person may have a certain belief or thinks
about any matter in a particular way, but that may stay with him without
reaching the stage of saying or doing, due to following reasons:

a. He thinks it will make no difference or it is
of no significance.

b. He lacks proper communication channel.

c. He is afraid.

d. He thinks he cannot carry out the same.

2. There may be many things people
might say casually without thinking or any intention of doing it.

3. Similarly, the act of doing may
be devoid of the element of thinking , saying or both.

As in number one, nothing happened
and it is of no use going in to its details. However, number two
and three needs more probing.

A person’s belief remains enshrined in his
mind all the time, and affects his conduct in many ways. He might say or do something according to
those beliefs without a deliberate process of thinking or might say or do something
on the spur of a moment. If the acts are not covered by the above hypothesis
then the only explanation could be that either he acted due to sudden
provocation and said or did things that he did not believe in or he is a
lunatic or out of his mind.

The above discussion makes it clear
that the acts of saying and doing need
to be qualified for attaining the status of “Saying” and “Doing” in the
context of the principle that one should follow what one says.

Going through each one of the above
four situations individually it is quite
clear that number one and two completely fit
the module earlier narrated as far as saying is concerned. There appears
to be a deliberate expression of intention of doing something after due process
of thinking. But, due to events beyond control whatever was declared to be done
was not done. In number three the person did not do what he declared to do may
be because he said it on the spur of moment or due to the exigency of the
situation at the time of doing. In the number four situation, the father did
not kill the daughter, may be prevailed upon or due to love or compassion or he
too made the statement on the spur of moment and without going through the
process of deliberate thinking.

As an offshoot, it is necessary that
whatever has been said and intended to be done must comply with the following
conditions:

What has been said or planned to be done has
passed through a deliberate thought process and is not merely based on a
person’s general beliefs or occurred on the spur of a moment.

I It is factually doable at the time of being said or at
the time of doing.

I It is within the
capacity and ability of the person saying.

I It is physically, legally, morally and ethically
permissible.

Thus, rationally and objectively it
can be said that only those statements / words that fulfill the above
conditions should be scrutinized for deciding whether there had been any
divergence between words and deeds.

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